We as a profession seem to be perennial victims of availability bias.
We're naturally going to think of the stuff we've been reading about lately on the Internet first. Which is just never going to be the established and stable stuff that'll let you get your job done without producing any blog-worthy experiences in the process. "Went home after 8 hours without producing any fodder for war stories" doesn't make for an interesting tweet, let alone post on Medium.
We as a profession seem to be perennial victims of availability bias.
We're naturally going to think of the stuff we've been reading about lately on the Internet first. Which is just never going to be the established and stable stuff that'll let you get your job done without producing any blog-worthy experiences in the process. "Went home after 8 hours without producing any fodder for war stories" doesn't make for an interesting tweet, let alone post on Medium.